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Carey's American atlas : containing twenty maps and one chart
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia. Carey. 1795.
- Philadelphia.
- United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- South America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- South America.
- West Indies--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- West Indies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 atlas ([1] p., 21 folded leaves) : 21 maps ; 38 cm.
- Other Title:
- Carey's
- American atlas
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Engraved for, and published by, Mathew Carey, 1795.
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) 1. British possessions in North America
- 2. Maine
- 3. New-Hampshire
- 4. Vermont
- 5. Massachusetts
- 6. Connecticut
- 7. Rhode-Island
- 8. New-York
- 9. New-Jersey
- 10. Pennsylvania
- 11. Delaware
- 12. Maryland
- 13. Virginia
- 14. North-Carolina
- 15. South-Carolina
- 16. Georgia
- 17. Kentucky
- 18. Tennessee
- 19. South-America
- 20. Captain Cook's discoveries
- 21. West-Indies.
- Notes:
- Longitude given from Philadelphia; some maps also give longitude from London.
- Maps of the United States, South America, and the West Indies, originally engraved for the 1st American ed. of: A new system of modern geography / by William Guthrie. -- Philadelphia, 1794-1795. See Evans 27077. Maps compiled chiefly by Samuel Lewis, engraved by W. Barker, et al.
- Local Notes:
- Two copies: one large paper, coloured; another, small paper, uncoloured.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 10855 ; Evans 28390 ; Phillips 1172, 1213, 1362.
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